Due Process

Winston Blackmore and James Oler, former leaders of the religious community Bountiful in southeastern BC, have been convicted of polygamy. Both are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a sect…

Earlier this month it was revealed that the Canadian government was settling with Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who had spent eight years in detention at a US naval base in Cuba known as Guantanamo…

The revised Executive Order of President Trump “speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination,” was how Chief Justice Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of…

On May 10, 2017 United States’ Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, issued a memo for all federal prosecutors, instituting a new policy on how charges are to be laid and sentencing is to be approached. The…

A potential Charter challenge in the BC polygamy case will have to wait till the judge delivers her decision on the criminal trial. Two men from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints…

The Supreme Court of the United States released its decision on the Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado case on March 6, 2017. In a 5-3 decision delivered by Justice Kennedy, SCOTUS clarified the courts’ ability to review…

This past week the United States Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for Lynch v Dimaya, dealing with the issue of “whether 18 U.S.C. 16(b), as incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act’s provisions governing an…